Black and White Colorization Extension

Introduction

Bored while going through black and white images in a Wikipedia page or some other web page consisting of black and white images? Hope you had them colored? ..... ..... ..... Bingo! Well now you can, using this extension and its accompanying localhost server. Read the instructions below to get started ASAP :)

Instructions to get started

• clone this repo using

git clone https://github.com/himanish-star/B-W_Colorization_Extension.git

• unzip caffe.tar.gz and place it in the path /home/<user_name>/. Finally your path to caffe would look something like this /home/<user_name>/caffe
• add caffe to your python path

export PYTHONPATH=/home/<user_name>/caffe/python:$PYTHONPATH

• start the nodejs server

cd B-W_Colorization_Extension/server
npm install
npm start

• Enter the developer mode in chrome extensions and click on load unpacked and select folder: imageExtension
• Navigate to any desired Wikipedia webpage and get ready for a new experience

Demo Video

Please look at this short video to see how the extension works https://youtu.be/dmrRAaevCEA